# indicium
## English
### Etymology

From Latin indicium.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɪnˈdɪʃɪəm/, /ɪnˈdɪsɪəm/

### Noun

indicium (plural indicia or indiciums)
* An indication; a sign.
** 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 431:that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.

## Latin
### Etymology

From index (“indicator”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈdi.ki.um/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈdi.t͡ʃi.um/, [in̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃium]

### Noun

indicium n (genitive indiciī or indicī); second declension
* information, evidence, discovery, notice
    Synonyms: nūntius, fāma, notitia
* reward for information
* indication, sign, proof, token
    Synonyms: signum, index

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Related terms

* index
* indicābilis
* indicātiō
* indicātīvus
* indicātor
* indicātūra
* indicīna
* indicō
* indiculum

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: indici
* → German: Indiz
* → Italian: indizio
** → Neapolitan: 'nnìzio
* → Portuguese: indício
* → Romanian: indiciu
* → Sicilian: nnizziu
* → Spanish: indicio
* → Swedish: indicium

#### See also

* doctrīna f
* nūntius m
* scientia f

### References

* “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* indicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* indicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin indicium.

### Noun

indicium n
* (law) item of circumstantial evidence
** 2023 November 29, David Rydell, Carl Enderstein, “Fem unga döms för inblandning i mordet i Hjälstaviken – SVT sänder live [Five young individuals are sentenced for involvement in the murder in Hjälstaviken – SVT broadcasts live.]”, in SVT Nyheter:Det finns inte någon direkt bevisning i form av erkännanden eller vittnen till själva mordet, men däremot ett stort antal indicier som med varierande styrka talar för samtliga tilltalades skuld, säger Lars Holmgård, ordförande i målet i ett pressmeddelande.There is no direct evidence in the form of confessions or witnesses to the actual murder, but instead a large number of indications varying in strength that speak to the guilt of all the accused, says Lars Holmgård, the chairman in the case, in a press release.

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | indicium | indiciums |
| singular | definite | indiciet | indiciets |
| plural | indefinite | indicier | indiciers |
| plural | definite | indicierna | indiciernas |

### References

* indicium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* indicium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* indicium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)